If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?

Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.

Done right, a strategic intent is really one decision that makes 1,000 decisions.

I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.

Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

It’s too late for you Wilhelmina Grimm, great great great granddaughter of Wilhelm Grimm.

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM

This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be.

God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.

Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.